Stephen Flood repaired the damaged windows of Bill MacMillan's house in Pennsville after a deer ran through his front door on Thursday, October 11, 2012. (Staff Photo by Brad Kingett/Today's Sunbeam)

PENNSVILLE TWP. — A stray deer charged into a local home, startling a visually impaired mother and her son.

The alarming incident also caused the family dog Buddy to suffer a seizure, and cat Cleo to hide.

According to resident Bill MacMillan, a wounded, adult female deer crashed through the front door of his home on Harvard Road a little after 2 p.m. on Thursday. He recalled being in the kitchen mopping when hearing the crash. His mother, Anna, 93, was sitting in a chair in the living room when the deer barged in causing a ruckus.

Anna, unable to see, had no idea what was in the house at the time. She yelled for her son, thinking a vehicle had struck the house.

“I thought a car ran into the house. The crash was unbelievable. The poor thing. My heart must be good, I didn’t have a heart attack,” Anna joked.

Bill MacMillan said when he ran to the scene, he saw the animal on all fours in the corner directly across from the door.

“I was so panicked, I thought it was a neighbor’s dog because it was making a grunting noise,” MacMillan said.

Not long after, the deer took off into the living room colliding with the television set, which then fell to the floor, he explained.

According to MacMillan, the deer then frantically charged into the bedroom, breaking the window trying to escape. Unable to get out through the window, the deer leapt into the kitchen, knocking over and flipping the kitchen table upside down.

Anna MacMillan, 93, was in the living room as the deer ran through the house after crashing through the front door of her house in Pennsville on Thursday, October 11, 2012. (Staff Photo by Brad Kingett/Today's Sunbeam)

“I don’t know how she knocked it over, it’s so heavy. I kept asking ‘What is it?’ You know — it could have jumped onto my lap,” Anna said.

According to MacMillan and his mother, the deer was already wounded when it entered the house. As the deer made her way through each room, she tracked blood from her harmed body throughout the house.

The angst of the terrified deer caused the six-year-old family dog, Buddy, to have a seizure.

“The deer jumped over me and the dog. I was tending to Buddy on the floor trying to talk him out of his seizure, and it jumped right over us,” MacMillan said.

With the seizing dog, mother sitting on the chair not knowing what is going on, and a frantic deer, MacMillan said he had no idea which direction to go.

“We are blessed. It could have been much worse,” he said.

The episode also traumatized the three-year-old cat, Cleo, according to MacMillan. The orange tabby was hiding between the bed board and the wall and did not come out until Thursday night.

Damage to the house was a little more than $1,000 which included replacing the door, bedroom window, kitchen window and household broken items.

“Luckily, the deer didn’t touch the china cabinet or house collectibles in the living room,” MacMillan recalled. In addition to the windows, door, and the cabinet, a porcelain Jesus figurine was destroyed.

Bill MacMillan's black labrador retriever Buddy, 6, suffered a seizure as the deer ran through his Pennsville house on Thursday, October 11, 2012. (Staff Photo by Brad Kingett/Today's Sunbeam)

After leaping over MacMillan and his dog, the deer charged out of the house, back through the front door she came in, taking off down Riviera Drive.

Also damaged in the incident was valuable sentimental items including an antique basin and pitcher.

According to MacMillan, there was no clear explanation to why the deer rammed into the house and the family is working to get things back in order.

“I just feel bad for the deer. Everything else is replaceable.” he said. “I wish I could know whether the deer live or not and that it’s safe.”